Gerry was new at school and so had made no friends yet. It was a small school, a good twenty miles from the center of town. It was the last class of the day when fellow student Pamela spoke up to remind everyone to come over after school for some punch, cake and games to […]
To Ponder
Four Heroes Elementary: An Academic Struggle to Survive?
Submitted by Lakewood CARES John Arbeeny. Lakewood CARES will be providing an academically based response to schools highlighted in the Clover Park School District (CPSD) “#SuperSchoolShoutOut“ articles in The Suburban Times. This is data you will not find elsewhere in CPSD public relations pieces, School Board meeting agendas or “Inside Schools”. This week’s CPSD “beaming […]
Beachwood Elementary: The Best of the Best! Why Not All CPSD Schools?
Submitted by John Arbeeny. Lakewood CARES will be providing an academically based response to schools highlighted in the Clover Park School District (CPSD) “#SuperSchoolShoutOut“ articles in The Suburban Times. This is data you will not find elsewhere in CPSD public relations pieces, School Board meeting agendas or “Inside Schools”. This week’s CPSD “beaming with pride” […]
Letter: Lakewood – Where Housing is Hot, and Public Input is Not
Submitted by Walter Neary, Lakewood. A funny thing happened on the way to incentivizing developers to put housing instead of businesses along Gravelly Lake Drive. Now the rest of the city is under consideration as well! You may recall that earlier this year, the City Council told the planning commission to re-examine the idea of […]
Let’s Talk! – Thin Ice
Are you ready to switch off your screens and ponder or discuss another writing/conversation prompt from my friend Tyrean Martinson’s book? Here’s my take on it. One of my first memories is standing on a frozen pond as a toddler. The next moment, a tall boy on skates ran me over, never turning back. It […]
Harvey Play Review
I like this comment from Broadway: “Whoever thought of reviving Mary Chase’s 1944 chestnut, Harvey, and its nymous rabbit starepo has taken a good reading of the current Broadway zeitgeist. Escapist comedy appears to be the audience genre of choice this season” witness the success of One Man, Two Guvnors, possibly Broadway’s most entertaining show […]
Across the Fence: Zeitgeist
You have most certainly heard if not used this Germanism in the English language, Zeitgeist. Germans pronounce it with a “ts” in the beginning, ‘tsite-guy-st. It translates as spirit of the time and means exactly that. The term itself has not always been around, though the phenomenon has. I would almost go so far as […]
The Wizard of Oz – St. Luke’s Theatre Company
Peg and I arrived at CenterStage on Sunday to find out there were no handouts for the production of Harvey. The printer had ceased after only a couple of prints. We had seen worse problems, so we knew we could get the basics for the Centerstage review of the classic production of 1944 pretty easily. […]
In the Book Nook with … Matt Mememaro
Author Matt Mememaro from Queensland, Australia, works as a medial administrator. He first started writing when he was eleven or twelve, then took a long break, as school and life took over. He rekindled it at 17 for a few years only, to take another long break again until recently. He is determined not to […]